Here’s another entry for the 2019 St Luke’s CARES Community Awards, it has been submitted by Ken Ingram on behalf of Middleton Elderly Aid’s Arm In Arm walking group. For details of how YOUR community group can enter please click here. I was asked about a year ago by Sam,

Coroner’s officers are appealing for information to help trace the relatives of Alan Pickersgill. Mr Pickersgill aged 82 from the Middleton Park area of Leeds, died on Wednesday 23 January 2019 his cause of death is yet to be determined but his death is not being treated as suspicious. Officers would like

West Yorkshire Police have issued the following statement about the Police presence on Helston Road, Middleton: Shortly after midnight today (Wednesday 30 January 2019) officers attended an address on Helston Road in Middleton. A 45-year-old male was arrested for possession of an offensive weapon at the address and was taken

Middleton and Belle Isle Councillor Paul Truswell spoke passionately about the need for more social housing at the last Council meeting (16 January 2019), and welcomed plans for extra care housing in Middleton for older people. He and his colleagues, Judith Blake and Kim Groves, are also pressing for more

Each week we publish lists of planning applications related to LS10 and LS11 published on on the Leeds City Council website. The following applications were validated in the week beginning 21 January 2019: Conversion of 4 bedsits to 2no apartments, including replacement windows and doors with new timber units.

A day in the life of Middleton Elderly Aid. For the over 60s and their carers. On Wednesday 30 January 2019: 9am to 11am Bacon sandwiches with Hot Drinks, £1.00 11am to 1pm – Arm in Arm Walking Group Alternative weekly routes are chosen, down to Middleton Park Rose Garden

Councillors on the City Plans Panel overwhelmingly backed the controversial Park & Ride Scheme at Stourton at their meeting today (24 January 2019). The scheme will see parking for 1200 cars on land between Hunslet Cemetery and Junction 7 of the M621. The site will be served by electric buses

300 residents of Middleton at high risk of lung cancer will have a scan over two weeks in January at a mobile scanning unit in Asda’s car park thanks to Yorkshire Cancer Research. The charity has funded the mobile unit which comes in three articulated lorries and contains a full

Each week we publish lists of planning applications related to LS10 and LS11 published on on the Leeds City Council website. The following applications were validated in the week beginning 14 January 2019: Retrospective fencing application Springwell View/Springwell Road Holbeck Leeds LS12 1BH Ref. No: 19/00091/FU | Status: Current

The Middleton Railway is pleased to announce that it is working with the Vintage Carriages Trust (VCT) to restore Manning Wardle contractor’s locomotive “Sir Berkeley” to its original “Logan and Hemingway” livery. When back in service in 2020, this locomotive will be the only working example of a Manning Wardle